WYTHALL HISTORY SOCIETY LOTTERY GRANT

I  am pleased to say that we have been awarded a Lottery Grant to carry out a new project which is to research what effect the two World Wars had on the village of Wythall.  We will  be interviewing people in the village who remember World War One -  not very many now - but there are still one or two - also some of their relatives  who remember both wars..
 I shall be contacting local  Nursing Homes and Retirement Homes, also the British Legion to gather in these memories and record them. Obviously, these two wars had a dramatic effect on what was such a small village at the time, and we shall be mounting an exhibition when we have completed the work.  It will take some time, and if possible we will publish our findings and put them on the website.   We are appealing locally for people to lend us any photographs they may have so that we can copy them, and we should be delighted to hear from anyone who sees our website to contribute what they can.  One of the most obvious effects in the second world war was the fact that a local farm was acquired for use as a Royal Air Force Station, with the consequent increase in population this caused, also the fact that many local girls married RAF personnel, as witness the  emails we get from various parts of the world from former Wythall girls and their families.
If anyone can help by emailing their memories and photographs we shall be very pleased to receive them.

VAL LEWIS